Plan B.

       Being a Wednesday, it was away-day. Jerra and Clicky had picked two possible alternatives to the customary Garden Centre trip.  
       Plan A was Priests Mill Caldbeck; Plan B - The "Everest re-visited" Exhibition at Rheged.  I've just noticed this instant that closing day = last chance, was next Sunday - SO - a GOOD choice for two reasons.
1. The weather was not the most clement for outdoor pursuits.
2. If not today, probably not at all.
       As both Jerra and I were sentient in 1953 we were, to say the least, interested in the idea.
      Main had to be the Mountain - what else?  
Extra - 1. At least one clever should had had the nouse to save a contemporary Newspaper; the cost, if you can't read it 1+1/2d; not possible with this font to properly show "a penny ha'penny" correctly. 
       For you young folk - a "penny ha'penny" has translated as £0.01P; WHAT do you pay for a daily paper these days?
Extra 2. A photo, donated by Mallory himself.
       Who's Mallory?  One of the earlier Everest assaulters.  I nipped off to find MUCH more than I knew of "them" Mallory and Irvine.
"Was George Mallory Actually the First Man to Climb Everest?"  Beneath which header, it said:-
       "Whilst Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have summited Everest in May 1953, theories have swirled for decades that perhaps they were beaten, nearly 30 years earlier, by a 1924 expedition led by George Mallory and Andrew Irvine.
The pair never returned from their expedition, and Mallory’s body was discovered in 1999.  But many have argued that they managed to summit Everest before they died.  Whilst it is extremely unlikely that hard evidence will ever be uncovered to definitively say one way or the other, it remains an interesting question and a window into the ambition and almost super-human efforts of the early mountaineers."  which makes that photo, in extra, 101 years old (Ignoring months) NO wonder I had to Jig & Poke a wee bit to make Everest almost visible; maybe - in large, I haven't checked - YET.

P. S.  An extra I didn't put up, too unclear.  Evidence of Tourism.  A pile of RUBBISH collected fromEverest; the ONLY "redeeming" (?) feature?  NO Plastic Bottles, almost exclusively Cans, which showed signs of rusting away eventually - BUT - also SOME Aluminium, which wouldn't.